Conveyer system.



-s. B. PECK. CON VE YE-R SYSTEM. APPLICATION FlLED JAN. 16, I915.

Patent-ed Oct. 3, 1916.

. A 1 11-? 1 i T I1 I fi mmmzfe ig W V a s'TAT O F I .srnimron' B. BECK, or PHILADELPHIA, PnNnsYLvAmA, ASSIGNOR 'ro LINK-BELT COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLIN 01s, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

ooNvnYnR SYSTEM.

lspeci fic ation of Letters Patent.

Application filed'J'anuary 16, 1915 Serial No. 2,521.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STAUNTo B. PEoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia 5 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in onveyer Systems, of which the following is a Specification. v

My invention relates to a conveyer system adapted for use in wairehouses'or faoto;

-ries where large units are to be conveyedand whereit may be desirable for sections I of the conveyors to be simultaneously operating inopposite directions. I

It is illustrated in, the accompanying drawings, wherein.

' Figure l is 'a diagrammaticplan 'view'ofx aportion of the conveyor; contained in my invention; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. p i

Like parts are indicated by tors in all the figures. 4 e

. A, A and A, A are] conveyer belts arranged in longitudinal groups-overlapping ends and also arranged if desired ingroups side b'y'side driven by separate driving B, B B B and (B are diagrammatic ilustrations of variable speed and reversible motors of any kind' or descri tion'.

,provided with. a series of sprocket wheels whereby they conveyer belts A and A are" v I cally without intending to limit myself to driven in either direction and at ariable speeds.

' D: D v over which the' belts A, A travel.

The motor B drives the shaft E and the 40 motor B theshaft, F, the two together c'onstituting motors Bfand B? are adaptedto drive respectivelyshafts G and I which are supplied with'fsprock'et wheels to drive the appropriate belts rA A said belt's'in 5 turntraveling over the l dlersD.

[.The object of thearrang'e nenti oft-theI parts shown in Fig-15in the diagrammatic manner is to-illustratthat there maybe at 1 each point herethe'; successive belts overnd,; one -shaft -to drive Zone ending in. one direction and f ckets to carry the ends ofth'e lap one' 'moto set-of belts theidler spro 'set of belts fcomingfjrom the other direction; .or to illustrate. that. the YYQ ,dr1v1ng '5 shafts maybe placed togetherwath thefbelts the same "letare a series of idler sprocketwheels extending in opposite directions therefrom ,or that the driving shaftmay be divided of upper sections L preferably roofeshap'ed and with .idownwardly. projecting lugs M between which is mounted the -.rolle rv N driven ineither direction by Patented ode. 3, 1916.

troughs or slots in. f i which the conveyer belts travel.

vveyer belt 1s preferably composed ofa series which travels in the-slot or gro'fove. Since- 7 nate belt is shown in section and' the intermed ate belts in elevation.

The rod is provided'with a head/Y which bears against the bearing S so that the.

p idler sprocket wheel may be movedto take The motor B drivesthe-shaft (I which 1s-.,

up the slack in the conveyer belt.

less in detail and more or less diagrammati- Fig. 3 is taken on the line 33,- each alter j .70 'Downwardly depend-ingfrom the floor are T thehangers.

O, O Wltli the supporting or cross-piece P. v on which .ismountedaseries of wooden strips R, R furnishing grooves in which the. inverted oonveyer--belts-.,travel. The idler .sprocket wheel- D is mounted on a tension device consisting ofthebearing S mo m :mounted on a rod T supported betwee'n'the If These several'part'si'l have shown-more or I any particular form. orf arrangement, as? great variatlons in respect to sue, PI'OPOI'".

tions, arrangements and numbers of the several -partscan be 'made without departing fromthe spirit of my invention. I The use and operation of my invention are as follows: Assumingthefwarehouse' floor extended w ith l a line ofmachines, or a line .fof" discharge r61. receiving stations there: "along, it obviou'slybecomes important to have meanswhereby the material to be-cariiedkcan be placed upon a conveyor at any point-along the line and bedelivered at any r i other. point along the linein either. direction." It isweq'ually desirable that there should be .means whereby the conveyor may be in'whol'e,'o1j in part,operated at the same time-and." whereby portions" of it may be.-fi

1 0perated-..in/ opposite directions. *In any,

such conveyerit is highly important that objects of the nature proposed to be conveyed bysuch conveyer should be, without any break in theirtravel, or with the least possible or perceptible'break, passed from one section to another; for any such con veyer there must be, of course, a. series of cooperating sections. 1 By setting-the several motors to operate in a predetermined manner it will be possible to load material on the conveyer near either end and convey it any desired distance, or to the extreme farther end, or similarly, in the. reverse direction. It is equally apparent that materials maybe simultaneously loaded upon the conveyer at both. ends and conveyed to the middle, or at predetermined points between the ends and the middle, where they will be removed .by attendants r, in like manner, materials may be loaded upon the conveyer at the middle, or any point between the ends, and conveyed in opposite directions toward the ends. In short, while one section of the conveyer is being employed to transport material in one directionfrom one point to another some other section of the conveyer may be similarly employed to transport material in the same or opposite direction between other points. I have also shown diagrammatically an arrangement whereby one or more sections r the belt may travel in a direction opposite to that ofthe adjacent parallel sections.

When the material under transport is brought to a given point Where it is to-be discharged it may .be delivered from the traveling conveyer belt onto the adjacent idler conveyer belts, or-if beingbrought from bothdirections to the point of discharge, then it will bearrested in its motion at the point where the two conveyer belts overlap, but in no case will there be any danger of interference with the action by any break between the belts.

By the term floor. I mean torefer to the general level in which the working portions of the conveyers travel,'and of course such floor or level could be arranged at any desired'point at any desired level with reference to the floor proper of the building. In practice, probably the floor of the build ing and the floor as I-am using that expression would be one and the same.- The term floor therefore indicates the working level in substantial parallelism with which the working portions ofthe conveyers operate. By the expression roofshaped as applied to sections of the coneyer belt, I' mean to indicate such a formation of the upper or Working side of the conveyer belt as will cover the 'co-acting parts of such belt or the working parts.

The object is to make it possible .for the workmen to pass backand forth over the conveyer belts from one to another from side to side with trucks or otherwise, and

Wltl 1 an extended working floor. If for any reason the set. of conveyers were to be elevated above the floor or separated from any extended working level, then at least the chains might perhaps be profitably uncovered or formed without such roofing.

I claim: 1 A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections and means for independently driving each group.

2. A conveyer comprising Y successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections and means for independently driving each group in either direction.

3. A' conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections and means for independently driving each group at varying speeds.

4t.- -A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer seo tions and means for independently driving each group in either direction at varying speeds. e

5. A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections, said sections comprising chain belts in combination with floor slots in which they run, and means for independently driving each group.

6. A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections, said sections comprising chain belts in combination with-floor slots in which they run, and means for independently driving each group in either direction.

7 A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections, said sections comprising chain belts in combination with floor slots in which they run, and means for independently driving each group at varying speeds.

8. A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections, said sections comprising chain belts in combination with floor slots in which they run, and means for independently driving each group in either direction at varying speeds. r

9. A- conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections sunk to a level slightly below the working level of such conveyer sections and means forindependently driving each group.

10. A conveyer comprising groups of conveyer sections arranged so as to form an effectively continuous conveying surface and said conveyer sections sunk to a levels ightly below the working level of such. conveyer.

-'separate conveyers arranged to present a sections in combination with returnand driving mechanism placed belowv the floop. 11. -A conveyer [com-prising successive groups of conveyer sections arranged to form a continuous conveying surface and p groups of overlapping parallel conveyer secmeans fer. independently driving each group, said conveyer sections sunk to a level slightly below the working level ofsuch con?- veyer sections in combination with-return and driving mechanism placed below the floor. v 5

12. A conveyer comprising successive continuous conveying surface and means for independently driving such separate conveyers, said conveyer sections sunk to a level slightly below the working level of such conveyer sections in combination with .re-

turn and driving mechanismplaced below the flofir. v v

13. A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer. sections, said sections compris' chain. belts in combination with slots for said chain belts sunk beneath the working level in which ing each group.

14. A conveyer comprising successive groups of overlapping parallel conveyer sections, said sections comprising chain belts in combination with slots for said chain belts sunk beneath the working level in which they run, and means for independently driv ing eachgroup in either direction.

15. A conveyer comprising successive tions, saicl sections comprising chain belts in combination with slots for sand chain belts sunk beneath the workin level in which they run, and'nieans for in ependently driv-' ing each group at varying speeds.

ing each group in-eitherdirection at varying speeds.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature inthe. presence of two witnesses this 31st day of December,-1914.

STAUNTON B. BECK.

.t Witnesses: they run, and means, for independently driv J. WALTER LAUER, A. J. Owens. 

